Without the Internet as it is today, business would be a much more difficult place to be in. We can use the internet for advertising our business products and services, communicating across oceans or just to the next cubicle, and we can use computers and the Internet to develop better research for our business. However, providing computer and Internet access to your employees may not always come at an advantage for you and your company.
It is said that because of the Internet, a company can expect to lose
over $6,000 dollars (per employee) per year if they give Internet access to their employees. For a small company with around 500 employees, this means you could be paying out over 3 million dollars for lost productivity. Annually, this equates to around $180 billion being lost for all American companies that give their employees access to the internet.
Computer monitoring and content filtering software is on the rise in the workplace because of these staggering amounts of dollars being, literally, given away for lost work. Computer monitoring software can be implemented into your workplace servers and computers that can then monitor employee and network activities as they are being played out. Just letting your employees know you will begin to monitor their computer and Internet activities may be enough to avoid handing out 6000 dollars a year to each one of them for lost work. However, computer monitoring and internet filtering software has many other useful features.
One such feature is the ability to blacklist specific keywords and websites. By only allowing access to websites that might be relevant to your companies work, you can greatly increase productivity. You can also prevent legal issues from arising by not allowing access to content that could be illegal. Websites offering downloads of files containing spyware, adware, and other harmful computer files can also be avoided, saving you time and money with less IT costs.
Computer monitoring and
internet filtering software may be the right direction for you to head in if you feel your employees aren’t being productive enough. It can help you find out where the lost productivity is going, and what you can do to get your employees back on the right working track.
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